Ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices

Bloch, Immanuel

doi:10.1038/nphys138

Ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices

Immanuel Bloch

Oct, 2005

8 pages

Published in:

Nature Phys. 1 (2005) 1, 23-30

Published: Oct, 2005

DOI:

10.1038/nphys138

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Abstract: (Springer)

Artificial crystals of light, consisting of hundreds of thousands of optical microtraps, are routinely created by interfering optical laser beams. These so-called optical lattices act as versatile potential landscapes to trap ultracold quantum gases of bosons and fermions. They form powerful model systems of quantum many-body systems in periodic potentials for probing nonlinear wave dynamics and strongly correlated quantum phases, building fundamental quantum gates or observing Fermi surfaces in periodic potentials. Optical lattices represent a fast-paced modern and interdisciplinary field of research.

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